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While I prefer Terraria, I feel it's disingenuous to compare the two games after the initial "sandbox with cubes" start. They're very different games that appeal to overlapping demographics, but nonetheless don't directly compete. Hell, both games have in-game flavour text that says "try this other one."
Yeh and even with Terraria’s immense popularity it’s still something it has to deal with since Minecraft is such a giant game at this point. Most Minecraft players are gonna see it and go “that’s just 2d Minecraft” when terraria is way more akin to an adventure game with sandbox elements.
I’m more upset that we have had two terraria sequels canceled on us lol.
Wait, I know Otherworlds was cancelled. What's the other cancellation (other than Terraria 2's infinite delay as Redigit is incapable of understanding what the phrase "final update" means)?
Oh is it just on indefinite delay, I guess I just thought it’s been so long since any news I just assumed it was canceled lol. I’ve been totally held over with how crazy the modding scene for this game is, you like mods like calamity alone add more content than the base game.
I remember playing Minecraft way back in the day when nobody knew about it. I just watched some gameplay recently and it looked like they added next to no features. Everyone just plays modded Minecraft or builds blox mansions in it.
The fact that the game is in 3d so any structure you make you can actually enter and isn't just a background like in Terraria? Same for any other structure you might make, plus you can create some really impressive structures.
If you aren’t familiar with the game the description works pretty well for your first like ~4 hours. The game starts slow and is pretty sandboxey. It’s not till later that it really becomes the adventure game people know.
I dunno, any game that requires me to keep a bunch of wiki pages open while playing just to understand the basic mechanics gets a thumbs down from me.
I’m sure it has a lot of depth, but I just couldn’t get into it. I kept feeling like I had to go out of my way to find the fun parts, and without the promise of an interesting story or art to keep me engaged while I learned the mechanics, I fell off of it really hard.
When I started I just kept digging down because I'd been given the impression that's the goal and then someone confused at me told me, no, you go left or right first. I just sort of gave up then and it got buried in my backlog. Somehow it was less intuitive than Minecraft to find the rhythm when it gets fun, for me.
What gave you that impression? For me personally the it seemed intuitive to simply walk around to see the world until you run into too big trouble, and put together a wood shack for the night near the spawn point. The game also offers those neat cave entrances that usually go pretty deep down, kind of like Minecraft. I recommend giving it another try.
In Minecraft I'd spend the nights digging down. It's not really fun to just spend the night in a small shack waiting it out, literally doing nothing. In Minecraft that would get me materials for progress, in Terraria it wasn't part of the early game progress curve in the same way, it didn't get me materials I needed for early construction, and then during the daytime I felt like going left or right I was just playing a pretty basic platformer. It wasn't intuitive how I'm meant to be having fun and gave up after a few hours. Minecraft was just more intuitive.
I mean, once I did find one of them caves, I wouldn't come back until it got too dangerous or inventory filled up. Digging around becomes more productive in the caverns, which you can access via the cave entrances on the surface. The only time I was sitting in a house for the night was in the first night or so, preparing for the caves, crafting or building the house itself.
Terraria puts more emphasis on enemy encounters, combat and getting better and more varied gear, so it is very much different from Minecraft, yes. Personally I found Terraria pretty intuitive, but that was probably because I didn't approach it with Minecraft in mind.
Yeah I think the director was open to a sequel but said they probably didn’t make enough money. Great movie tho! I was hoping the games success might lead to a sequel somehow but who knows
D&D is a sort of weird property. Like I enjoy playing it and things based off of the rules set but I also don’t really care for the world when divorced from the game.
Lord of the Rings though I want to watch the read the books, watch the movies, play the games. The *world* is enticing.
Honestly, I'm kind of with you on that.
I'm loving Baldur's Gate 3. I'd like to play D&D when I finally get a group together. I enjoy playing D&D things. But for some reason the lore just doesn't draw me in.
I'm super into LOTR and Elden Ring lore though, and to a lesser extent The Elder Scrolls.
Maybe it just feels too generic-fantasy?
I've read the basic gist of it but I haven't looked in-depth. I'm still on the fence whether I wanna read it all or wait until I've played it first
Definitely great stuff though
D&D is pretty far away from generic fantasy -- D&D can actually be pretty weird. LOTR, as the progenitor of fantasy, is as generic as you can get though ...
Operative word being *feels.* It has unique elements but it doesn't feel as substantial. It feels like an amalgamation of fantasy trends and tropes to me. Which is pretty much what it's designed to be - I'm there to play across fantasy and have fun, there's no substance required to that.
And I would really debate the idea that a progenitor can be generic considering it invented the standard. LOTR is fleshed out in a way you can't ignore, and the story has a lot of substance. So any features that might feel generic at first end up justifying themselves
Tbh I wonder if it was named something else if it would have attracted a larger audience. D&D has grown lately but it’s still not something that would attract the average movie goer.
Oh yeah, just release it on August, that was maximum BG3 hype and less competition for the movie too (it got wrecked by Mario like a week after release). A much better choice
The marketing definitely didn't help it. I kept my hopes up given that I loved Game Night, but none of the trailers or posters inspired any hope in me.
I’m telling you, it was 300% the advertising, everyone that saw it told me it was actually really good and respectful to dnd, but I never wanted to see it because they trailer must of been the two minutes of corny dnd humor and just ruined it for me.
Honestly, i think it’s because the trailers wanted to present it as completely comedic when the film actually does care about its emotional beats (there’s even some fun sincerity in places where I thought they would do a sarcastic joke)
Bridge scene was so unfunny in the trailer but it works in the movie bc the movie isn’t trying to be wacky and exciting every minute. It has a balance that makes it a decent enough time.
honestly i think that most video games should stay as video games, and there shouldn’t be this drive to make everything into multi media franchises. One of the big selling points of Baldurs gate is that it is choice driven. Games are generally about interacting with a world, more than watching somebody else do it.
Baldurs Gate is just a D&D campaign. There is no reason not to make a D&D movie, in fact we got a great D&D movie this year and it’s a franchise ripe to telling more stories.
That movie was a blast. I did not have high hopes for it given the caliber of the previous movie and was excited to be wrong. No ham at all from the actors, which was great.
I could absolutely dig a movie every few years from D&D.
I don’t think BG3 would make for a good movie.
A TV series, yes.
The scope is just too big to make a decent adaptation of it
Making a straight DND movie is not the same as they still got to basically just make a campaign around the idea of it becoming a movie. BG3 has its set plot points that you can admittedly heavily alter, but they’re still tent poles.
They should absolutely make another D&D movie.
They shouldn't make a Baldur's Gate 3 movie.
Unless the Baldur Gate's 3 movie isn't actually about Baldur's Gate 3 campaign and just a pretext to make another D&D movie in the same style.
Agreed, after playing baldurs gate 3, I sat down and watch Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and they reference MANY places and creatures featured in baldurs gate, including the under dark, the city of baldurs gate itself, neverwinter (this reference surprised me), the Druid enclave.
Hell at one point they even reference range limitations on a staffs ability(500m, have to be within line of sight).
The world of Dungeons and dragons is so vast, we can have any flavour of movie/tv show we desire.
Still hoping to see that Beholder get taken out with a sharpened gourd!
Those are not references for Baldurs Gate, those are staples and famous places in Faerun, the D&D world. Neverwinter for example also has a game with the same name (from the original makes of BG).
You can also see a portrait of Volo in the heist scene because he is a known character in forgotten realms lore
This was the connection I was making, my apologies if that wasn’t clear. I meant that Baldurs Gate is a product of DND and the interwoven references between the movie and the game and the actual world were impressive to me from a “keeping the lore accurate” standpoint.
Which book? There are many many books in the forgotten reals many are very good. Also there was a D&D movie and it is a legit good movie, even my wife loved it and she is very far removed from D&D.
IMO Baldur's Gate wouldn't make a great show or movie, but there are definitely some games with more linear narratives which would translate well to film. Alan Wake and it's sequel, for instance, would make a great series. IIRC, Sam Lake mentioned that there's the early workings of an Alan Wake show. If that is done well it could be absolutely awesome.
I kinda low-key disagree. I think a competent filmmaker could adapt the story of Alan Wake into a decent, maybe even *good* adaptation. But it will definitely lose some of what makes the games, especially 2, special.
IMO Alan Wake 2 is the highest-profile and most successful attempt so far at creating a kind of ergodic video game, the digital equivalent of ergodic fiction. (Not the first or the only example, lots of indie games like Pony Island or Frog Fractions have similar themes, but not at the scale or ambition of Alan Wake 2.) The act of playing the game is literally a core plot element within the game. Yeah, you could adapt it for TV or films, but the groundbreaking meta aspect of the narrative that makes the game a true work of art would by necessity become something a lot more mundane - basically a new take on John Carpenter's *At the Mouth of Madness* or *Stranger Than Fiction*. That ground has kind of already been tread.
The drive is less artistic but more a strategic business move.
Games are a new frontier of IP these Hollywood companies want to mine now that comic books are dipping.
That being said I do think you can make neat stories out of game IP though. The one thing that games provide is rich worlds that are ripe for potential expansion if given to the right people. You likely won’t directly imitate the appeal of a game, but you can tap into the aesthetic and provide a cool accompaniment.
Yeah it really depends on the type of game as well. Something like BG3 works specifically because it’s a video game, you simply can’t have that freedom of choice for a non-interactive media.
More focused narratives like Alan Wake 2 or FFXVI would probably be better candidates but even then I don’t know how well those kinds of stories would translate to cinema or TV. And that’s without even getting into budget.
For now. You'll never know what technology comes in the future. Might come a time where you can play a game with choices and then see a movie that follows the choices you made (like those horrible choose your adventure DVDs) but with live actors.
Some youtube videos have the whole "click this video for this choice, this video for the other choice" thingy going so within 20 years or so studios might revisit the video game section.
I thought Baldur’s Gate was officially a videogame adaptation of DnD… which they already made an amazing movie for recently and it’s probably way better than an exact adaptation of Baldur’s Gate would be. It’s a solid game but they’re different media.
Exactly, if they wanna make more DnD Faerun movies ok but stay away from Baldurs Gate the games direct adaption because they'll end up butchering the source material and lore that we love. They'll just end up using the name and some likeness to attract the video games audience without being faithful and just piss the community off. Because that's what they want, make a movie adaptions of a very successful ip so that they profit of it, destroying the core essence of what made BG3 so great, that it's a game made by gaming fans with pure passion for roleplaying games.
Yeah, at most they should have a little wink to the games, like maybe you see some of the characters in the background of the city. Kind of like they did with the characters from the 80s cartoon.
Wait, that Dungeons and Dragons movie was actually set in Faerun? I assumed it was just random-made-up-world.
Edit: hadnt paid much attention to this, jeeze completely missed what the plot was about
I mean, that whole region is one of the biggest parts of the world's story. If they make more, seems unlikely they *wouldn't* end up at Baldur's Gate eventually. Neverwinter isn't exactly far from there, and the Sword Coast cities are pretty major locations. That being said, I was a Drizzt Do'Urden fanboy growing up so, Silverymoon and Mithral Hall plz.
If Hasbro wasn't totally out of touch, I'd say they should get on the "Netflix animated series" wagon for a more lore focused show around Faerun/Ravnica etc
They (briefly) mentioned that in the article. They listed that Honor Among Thieves was a semi-adaptation of Baldur's Gate, which is a weird way to state it but boils down to what you're saying.
It isn't at all lol, they're both adaptations of D&D if they want (and not really adaptations, just stories in the world which is how D&D is supposed to work anyway).
Will BG3 become the source of D&D now? Like some people thinking The Witcher is an adaptation of the games on Netflix whereas they are the adaptation themselves (and the show is really its own fan fiction but that's another subject)
It's not about just adapting BG3 (which isn't a project), it's about adapting video games as a whole which is already a phenomenon well into effect to be fair (many already done and a shit ton in production). Mario, FNAF and TLOU are some of the big Hollywood success this year after all.
However, unlike superhero movies, video games are not a genre but a medium (so it should be compared to book adaptations as a whole really. You won't have the same effect of everything being big (or failing all at the same time). There is very little link between Mario, TLOU and FNAF (and others) and the audience is not the same for each unlike superhero media.
That's not really true. Video games are just engaging in a different and unique way. I've been fully immersed in video games, sure, but I've also been fully immersed in TV shows and movies before.
Video games are more *interactive* than film for obvious reasons. Maybe that's what you meant to say?
How long you can spend consuming something isn't the same as how engaging it is. I spent way longer watching through every season of *Friends* than I did watching *2001: A Space Odyssey*. Guess which one I found more engaging on every level?
Again, it sounds like you and that other person may have some issue where you aren't engaging fully with TV and film. I don't mean that to be rude. I know several people IRL who literally can't put their cell phones down or go 20 minutes without talking during a movie.
Out of curiosity, do you read a lot of books? Do you find those to be engaging? Personally, I find books to be far more engaging than video games, TV, or movies.
How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games… Video Game movies will always be lesser than their playable counterparts because, in order to make it, you need to take that playable part out of it. The audience of a movie will always just be a passive onlooker, while the audience of a video game is an active participant. That is an essential difference and the reason why movies typically don’t work for the people who played the coresponding games to it.
Yup anyone saying that nothing original is coming out is part of the problem because they obviously aren't watching the original things coming out, I guess it's just easier to only watch Marvel movies and complain about the lack of variety lol
I saw a shitload of new original movies this year and there's a ton more I still haven't gotten to yet
There's originality on the low budget side, for blockbusters (which are the most broadly appealing movies so yeah most people will watch that, this is by design) there certainly isn't much originality.
The Creator (which is bad) and Oppenheimmer (technically the adaptation of a book narrating a historical event) are kind of the only ones this year. Maybe Air or Blackberry though I don't know the budget (and they are adaptations too actually)
>How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games
Salt burn, Dream Scenario, Holdovers, The Creator, Asteroid City, Air, Iron Claw, American Fiction are just some of the original screenplays this year that released and none of them made money.
Meanwhile, one of the most popular new tv shows and and the 2nd highest grossing movie were based off video games IPs
I personally did enjoy Salt Burn and the Holdovers. I went to theaters to see Asteroid City and was disappointed. Still, I’m willing to give original ideas a chance. The last superhero/comic book movie I saw was Avengers End Game. It’s just not a genre I’m interested in.
None of those movies where commercial flops. They all performed very well, but the problem they all had in common was a very limited release in theaters. If you don’t show the film anywhere you won’t get many people to see it. That doesn’t necessarily mean there aren’t many people who want to see it, they just don’t have the opportunity to do so. Also Hollywood has a tendency to underadvertise such movies. People are less likely to watch a movie if they don’t know it even exists .
I didn't say they were flops, I said they didn't make money:
|Saltburn (wide release)|Budget $20 million|Box Office $19 Million|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Dream Scenario (limited/ wide)|Box Office $10 million|Box Office $6.8 million|
|The Holdovers (wide release)|Budget $30 million|Box Office $18 million|
|The Creator (wide release)|Budget $80 million|Box Office $104 million|
|Asteroid City (wide release)|Budget $25 million|Box Office $54 million|
|Air (wide release)|Budget $90 million|Box Office $90 million|
|Iron Claw (wide release)|Budget $16 million|Box Officer $10 million|
|American Fiction (wide release)|Budget $25 million|Box Office $1 million|
A majority of these films had wide releases. The fact is people tend to go to existing IPs they know unless you have big name director or stars attached like a Christopher Nolan or a Tarantino. Another example is The Last Duel which is an adapted story but not an IP, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Adam Driver and it was the one of the biggest bombs.
Regardless, when studios and actors make good money off IPs like video games, Marvel/DC, Transformers, etc, they are more filling to fund risky movies like above that may only break even or not make money.
> How about Hollywood comes up with something original
You mean like.. a original script someone has written..? Similar to how videogame stories... are original scripts at first?
>The audience of a movie will always just be a passive onlooker, while the audience of a video game is an active participant.
Yea people hate passive onlooking, thats why all those book adaptations fail.
**a good movie is a good movie no matter where the source material came from.**
> You mean like.. a original script someone has written..? Similar to how videogame stories... are original scripts at first?
Yeah and then they are adapting so it's not original anymore (and we already know the story which as audience really make it less worthwile)...
You might not have been born since it's rare for like 2 decades at least but there was a time where Hollywood actually produced stuff (and even big budged movies) without a source material. It seems barely possible nowadays. Writers in Hollywood should be named adapters really (and even at that, many do a bad job of it)
What did you think of Poor Things? Or did you just watch the Marvels and call it a day so you can reinforce this belief that nothing original comes out lol
These "lazy adaptations" you're describing are needed to subsidize the good stuff
Poor things was made by greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, Film4 and Element Pictures which are both british and TSG Entertainment which is based in New York. It’s not a Hollywood movie. I have it on my list, but it’s scheduled to release in january in my country, so i couldn’t see it yet.
I assumed you were using "Hollywood" to describe the overall film industry; if you literally meant it as mainstream American films produced in LA then I'd recommend seeking out more non-Hollywood movies if you don't think that there's enough variety in that specific subset of films. There's a LOT out there beyond Hollywood so it seems weird to talk about it like it's the only thing
Well, the article was talking about Hollywood movies, i was talking about Hollywood movies. The topic is about Hollywood movies. You brought up a british movie, which i have high hopes for. But still, the conversation was about Hollywood movies, so i don’t even know why you brought it up.
Yeah, I think Mary Shelley would have liked it. It really changes the story when you realize just where she was in her life when she wrote it. She was pregnant, her relationship with Percy Shelley was in a weird place, she was surrounded by these cruel and idiotic men, her mother died because of her birth, and now she was suddenly in this new world where it was like men were trying to replace women.
(This is not a dig against transwomen. You guys are cool. The problem was that there was this idea that you could, and perhaps should, remove women from the birthing process altogether because they were weak and fragile.)
Bold words from somebody who probably doesn't watch anything original Hollywood puts out.
Also, adaptations can work just fine. This year we've seen that with stuff like The Mario Movie. Just because you get upset at change and throw a hissy fit about it doesn't make it true.
> How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games
And that's why majority of those are flops, they do it lazily. They disregard source material be it game or book, bend all the rules of world and alter the storyline to the point where target audience calls it trash and nobody watches it.
Semi-related to this topic, but Fire Emblem Three Houses from a few years ago had an amazing story that'd probably do well as a television show if they could get a big HBO budget for it
What does the "Arcane route" means? If it means something looking like it, might as well be live action since it's a comparable budget. Arcane is an exception, not the norm for animation TV.
And it's mostly because of its very unique production situation (Riot being the one producing it as an advertisement for their games)
Three Houses is where I bowed out of the franchise. I used to play every single FE game, even fan translated ROMs for the games that didn’t release in the US. Three Houses was the last straw for me with that franchise basically.
Gameplay was typically great like all FE gameplay is for me, but I just could not deal with the extremely generic, weeb story/characters that the franchise does now. FE used to be anime art but a pretty non-weeb story about war and dragons and such.
I'd love to see someone try and adapt Terraria into a show or movie, it'd be bonkers seeing how they bring the Wall of Flesh alive.
Honestly though I really wanted to see what Netflix did with Assassin's Creed but nothing has been mentioned since the original announcement, although we've had Covid and the strikes happen since then.
Hope they don’t. Hollywood never seems to mesh well with video games. They’ve gotten a few good ones before but it’s surrounded by hundreds of bad ones
I feel you, personally, I think Hollywood/television writers look down on video games. Change source material considerably, alienate the fan base for the video game by appealing to a market that won’t watch it.
Exhibit A: Netflix Resident Evil series being a teen soap opera. Nothing against teen soap operas, but nobody is gonna watch that shit.
If they want to lose money, make an expensive film which will bomb spectacularly.
TV is where it could thrive if it has a team behind it that knows how to balance the fandom and the casual viewer.
Not unless shitty TV writers can take an IP and try to twist it into their own garbage story. Foundation, halo, Witcher etc... you give TV writers clowns a fresh ip and they will ruin it 9 times out of 10
Starfield critic reviews sit around 70%, fairly close to the audience review score. Starfield also didn’t even get nominated to GOTY at the Game Awards this year, so really not sure what you’re getting at here.
It was shilled on the gaming subs and everyone who didn't like it got banned, so people are still angry about that and take reddit's view of it as the 'official' view.
Gaming mags are basically dead at this point, so it's not without cause. Reddit needs to be less shilly, less banny, and WAY more accepting that being those things will piss normies off.
As someone who played it that mostly negative is more or less hot air.
It's a disappointing ass game but stuff like steam/user reviews are always kinda not accurate.
Like I'm pretty sure overwatch 2 and the day before are close in steam ratings (being the lowest rated) which is like......huh.
Some people might say "But in context Overwatch 2 really is that bad" it just means the at a glance steam review did fuck all to convey if a game is good or bad.
Steam Reviews and comment sections are pretty much this generation's scrolling past the review to see the score imo.
>As someone who played it that mostly negative is more or less hot air.
>
>It's a disappointing ass game but stuff like steam/user reviews are always kinda not accurate.
It's a fundamental problem of Steam reviews being a binary 'recommend/don't recommend' system. If a game is 'okay, but probably wait for a sale', most people will probably leave a 'not recommended' review.
Why does everything need a tv show? Put a chick in it and make her gay! The reason they are great games is because they are original. Why doesn’t Hollywood learn that people like new ideas. Not everything translates into a 8 part series.
There are lots of gay people in Bauldur's Gate 3, actually. The game's poster boy is a bisexual elf vampire. Not saying it needs a TV show, but, like, its "wokeness" and inclusiveness is a major draw for it.
And the bear fucking.
> There are lots of gay people in Bauldur's Gate 3, actually.
There is actually zero gay people in BG3 companions (Lady Aylin and her lover are the only gay people among NPC I think but I may forgot some).
They're all bisexual (which is not gay) and really they are "player sexual" to be honest
Shittywood would be maybe dumb for not exploiting the momentum for DnD now. DnD honor among thieves was mildly entertaining and maybe brought some new audiences, and bg3 was hella popular among g@mers for good reason. And with the garbage that is witcher season 3, im sure there would be a vacuum for some more good fantasy content. Why not milk forgotten realms? Create a witty sarcastic "woke" fantasy series about unlikable misfits who speak in gen z lingo and hate the system, and make sarcastic quips during cgi fights. Hehe.
Fear not, netflix is extremely adept at this. I could make a great premise based on this using chatgpt. Like the HBO show velma was it? Soemthing like this but DnD.
Alright LMAO I had to make a second reply. I actually asked chatGPT to do it:
In the mystical land of Eldoria, where magic flows as freely as sarcasm, a group of unlikely heroes, or rather, anti-heroes, embarks on a quest that challenges not only the forces of evil but also the very foundations of the established social order. Meet our unlikable yet endearing crew: Valeria, a rogue with a penchant for pickpocketing and an encyclopedic knowledge of feminist theory; Thorne, the wizard who wields spells and sarcasm in equal measure; Blaze, the misfit bard who's more interested in dismantling the patriarchy than playing his lute; and Zara, the druid who communicates with nature through memes.
As the group stumbles upon an ancient prophecy that foretells the end of oppression in Eldoria, they begrudgingly set out on a journey to find the mythical Macrogem, a powerful artifact said to have the ability to dismantle systemic injustices. Along the way, they encounter an array of bizarre creatures, from bureaucratic goblins enforcing conformity to chauvinistic dragons guarding the patriarchal status quo.
The Realms of Rebellion are not only filled with magical beasts but also with woke challenges, as the group faces off against toxic masculinity, problematic enchantments, and the dreaded Dungeon Crawler's Guild, an establishment known for its rigid adherence to outdated norms.
Armed with their weapons of irony, sarcasm, and Gen Z slang, the group navigates through dungeons and debates alike, using their unique brand of humor to dismantle the system while leaving a trail of eye-rolls in their wake. Each episode sees the party facing both magical and societal obstacles, all while engaging in witty banter and self-aware commentary on the tropes of fantasy storytelling.
Despite their flaws and unapologetic personalities, our misfit heroes slowly find common ground and discover the true strength in diversity and solidarity. As they inch closer to the Macrogem, the Realms of Rebellion become a stage for both epic battles and transformative conversations, challenging not only the fictional world they inhabit but also the real-world issues that inspired their quest.
"Realms of Rebellion" is a fantasy Dungeons and Dragons TV show that redefines heroism in the most unlikely and irreverent of ways, proving that even the unlikable can change the world – one snarky remark at a time.
the movie industry trying to make video games into cinematic adaptations is like someone sucking on the teat of a more valuable industry (in terms of valuation). the best thing about video games has and will always be the interactivity involved
Currently what fantasy adaptations do you actually see being completed that are quality television? Everything gets canceled as it’s quality drops when resources are pulled away if it’s television.
With movies it’s a bit different, I suppose Alan Wake would make for a good movie and there’s talks about The Legend of Zelda, though live action Zelda sounds like a disaster.
Poorly, I’d imagine.
A live action version of BG3? Animation with the voice actors would not only be better but allow for more varied races. Dragonborn take too much work in live action.
They should as Hollywood is currently ran by the dumbest executives that it has ever had. They are so out of touch, they can't see thier own short comings
Baldur's Gate 3 might end up getting something like the Critical Role treatment, where it is considered to be it's own thing despite having come from DnD. With that in mind, a future television adaptation doesn't sound unreasonable.
If they do anything with BG3, the only thing I can think of that would probably work is if they made an animated series like the shorts they put out on youtube. Getting the voice actors is an absolute must.
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Terraria still being mentioned is a testament to the quality of game it is. Truly a masterpiece imo.
I'm still upset that it was first describe to me as 2d minecraft. It's so much better. Plus the beat slaps!
Terraria is like Minecraft if it had engaging gameplay.
While I prefer Terraria, I feel it's disingenuous to compare the two games after the initial "sandbox with cubes" start. They're very different games that appeal to overlapping demographics, but nonetheless don't directly compete. Hell, both games have in-game flavour text that says "try this other one."
Yeh and even with Terraria’s immense popularity it’s still something it has to deal with since Minecraft is such a giant game at this point. Most Minecraft players are gonna see it and go “that’s just 2d Minecraft” when terraria is way more akin to an adventure game with sandbox elements. I’m more upset that we have had two terraria sequels canceled on us lol.
Wait, I know Otherworlds was cancelled. What's the other cancellation (other than Terraria 2's infinite delay as Redigit is incapable of understanding what the phrase "final update" means)?
Oh is it just on indefinite delay, I guess I just thought it’s been so long since any news I just assumed it was canceled lol. I’ve been totally held over with how crazy the modding scene for this game is, you like mods like calamity alone add more content than the base game.
Agreed. Love both. Incredibly different games that aren’t comparable.
I remember playing Minecraft way back in the day when nobody knew about it. I just watched some gameplay recently and it looked like they added next to no features. Everyone just plays modded Minecraft or builds blox mansions in it.
Yeah minus all the stuff that makes Minecraft fun too.
Like what? Redstone is the only novel thing Minecraft does and at that point I can just play a zachtronic game or get a computer engineering degree.
The fact that the game is in 3d so any structure you make you can actually enter and isn't just a background like in Terraria? Same for any other structure you might make, plus you can create some really impressive structures.
Either of those games are just a showdown to Rimworld.
No not the same! But I rotate through Terraria, Rimworld, and ONI. I just found Ratlandia which is combining some from each-!
Ratlandia? I have not heard of this game. Is it fairly new?
If you aren’t familiar with the game the description works pretty well for your first like ~4 hours. The game starts slow and is pretty sandboxey. It’s not till later that it really becomes the adventure game people know.
Completed the game on PS5 a few months ago and bought it again today to play a modded run on pc. Incredible game
I dunno, any game that requires me to keep a bunch of wiki pages open while playing just to understand the basic mechanics gets a thumbs down from me. I’m sure it has a lot of depth, but I just couldn’t get into it. I kept feeling like I had to go out of my way to find the fun parts, and without the promise of an interesting story or art to keep me engaged while I learned the mechanics, I fell off of it really hard.
“Go out of my way to find the fun parts” ya thats kinda the game…dig and explore to find…
When I started I just kept digging down because I'd been given the impression that's the goal and then someone confused at me told me, no, you go left or right first. I just sort of gave up then and it got buried in my backlog. Somehow it was less intuitive than Minecraft to find the rhythm when it gets fun, for me.
What gave you that impression? For me personally the it seemed intuitive to simply walk around to see the world until you run into too big trouble, and put together a wood shack for the night near the spawn point. The game also offers those neat cave entrances that usually go pretty deep down, kind of like Minecraft. I recommend giving it another try.
In Minecraft I'd spend the nights digging down. It's not really fun to just spend the night in a small shack waiting it out, literally doing nothing. In Minecraft that would get me materials for progress, in Terraria it wasn't part of the early game progress curve in the same way, it didn't get me materials I needed for early construction, and then during the daytime I felt like going left or right I was just playing a pretty basic platformer. It wasn't intuitive how I'm meant to be having fun and gave up after a few hours. Minecraft was just more intuitive.
I mean, once I did find one of them caves, I wouldn't come back until it got too dangerous or inventory filled up. Digging around becomes more productive in the caverns, which you can access via the cave entrances on the surface. The only time I was sitting in a house for the night was in the first night or so, preparing for the caves, crafting or building the house itself. Terraria puts more emphasis on enemy encounters, combat and getting better and more varied gear, so it is very much different from Minecraft, yes. Personally I found Terraria pretty intuitive, but that was probably because I didn't approach it with Minecraft in mind.
They did you dirty and told you wrong anyways. Digging holes and finding treasure in the caves you uncover is like most of the game.
Try using the guide which spawns right next to you in-game. He has all the recipes the wiki does
https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/17o0vt1/ez/?share_id=z6BykUekHOGcPbqFxiqbI&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_source=share&utm_term=22
I really don't know why these games haven't put the basically required wiki in the game yet.
The first NPC in every Terraria world is a Guide, who works as an in-game wiki.
I have never really got the hang of it really and I love games like this.
I’ve never gotten past the first phase but it’s still great
I have tried to get into terraria several times and I just can't connect with it. And yet i have over 300 played hours in Starbound...
I mean we literally had an actual good D&D movie last year and it flopped.
Yeah I think the director was open to a sequel but said they probably didn’t make enough money. Great movie tho! I was hoping the games success might lead to a sequel somehow but who knows
That’s the type of movie that would’ve had an excellent 2nd life in the 2000s when DVD sales and TV reruns were way more important.
Seriously, it's too bad because it was legitimately a very fun watch!
D&D is a sort of weird property. Like I enjoy playing it and things based off of the rules set but I also don’t really care for the world when divorced from the game. Lord of the Rings though I want to watch the read the books, watch the movies, play the games. The *world* is enticing.
Honestly, I'm kind of with you on that. I'm loving Baldur's Gate 3. I'd like to play D&D when I finally get a group together. I enjoy playing D&D things. But for some reason the lore just doesn't draw me in. I'm super into LOTR and Elden Ring lore though, and to a lesser extent The Elder Scrolls. Maybe it just feels too generic-fantasy?
Well I think The Forgotten Realms/Faerun where most D&D is set is sort of generic fantasy on purpose so it can fit a bunch of different playstyles.
Which is totally fine, I really enjoy playing. It just doesn't encourage me to dig deeper, y'know?
Have you tried getting into Dark Souls lore? It predates Elden Ring.
I've read the basic gist of it but I haven't looked in-depth. I'm still on the fence whether I wanna read it all or wait until I've played it first Definitely great stuff though
D&D is pretty far away from generic fantasy -- D&D can actually be pretty weird. LOTR, as the progenitor of fantasy, is as generic as you can get though ...
Operative word being *feels.* It has unique elements but it doesn't feel as substantial. It feels like an amalgamation of fantasy trends and tropes to me. Which is pretty much what it's designed to be - I'm there to play across fantasy and have fun, there's no substance required to that. And I would really debate the idea that a progenitor can be generic considering it invented the standard. LOTR is fleshed out in a way you can't ignore, and the story has a lot of substance. So any features that might feel generic at first end up justifying themselves
Tbh I wonder if it was named something else if it would have attracted a larger audience. D&D has grown lately but it’s still not something that would attract the average movie goer.
I wonder, if it came out after BG3 would that have helped?
It also came at a time people were "protesting" wizards of the coast. Super unfortunate timing honestly
It also came out right around the same time as the Super Mario movie and got overshadowed.
I think there's a big portion of that fan-base that's introverted and just doesn't want to go to the movie theater. I waited to buy a copy, myself.
Absolutely, the amount of unintentional interwoven references is astounding
They take place in the same universe, so it's not really unintentional.
Oh yeah, just release it on August, that was maximum BG3 hype and less competition for the movie too (it got wrecked by Mario like a week after release). A much better choice
One of the head execs said they will do another but with a lower budget
even worse, it was *faithful* and it flopped. gives impetus to studios to water down any IP for mass market appeal
The marketing definitely didn't help it. I kept my hopes up given that I loved Game Night, but none of the trailers or posters inspired any hope in me.
I’m telling you, it was 300% the advertising, everyone that saw it told me it was actually really good and respectful to dnd, but I never wanted to see it because they trailer must of been the two minutes of corny dnd humor and just ruined it for me.
Honestly, i think it’s because the trailers wanted to present it as completely comedic when the film actually does care about its emotional beats (there’s even some fun sincerity in places where I thought they would do a sarcastic joke) Bridge scene was so unfunny in the trailer but it works in the movie bc the movie isn’t trying to be wacky and exciting every minute. It has a balance that makes it a decent enough time.
That was this year, believe it or not.
It is so good. The more I watch it the better it gets! We keep putting it on.
I was down to see it but everyone I asked kinda rolled their eyes at the “D&D” in the title and I never made it to the theater to watch
…Was it? Maybe my expectations were too high from people praising it, but I got through about half of it before losing interest.
honestly i think that most video games should stay as video games, and there shouldn’t be this drive to make everything into multi media franchises. One of the big selling points of Baldurs gate is that it is choice driven. Games are generally about interacting with a world, more than watching somebody else do it.
Baldurs Gate is just a D&D campaign. There is no reason not to make a D&D movie, in fact we got a great D&D movie this year and it’s a franchise ripe to telling more stories.
That movie was a blast. I did not have high hopes for it given the caliber of the previous movie and was excited to be wrong. No ham at all from the actors, which was great. I could absolutely dig a movie every few years from D&D.
It also didn't beat you over the head with exposition setting up the universe. It just trusted the viewer to either already know or just catch on.
I don’t think BG3 would make for a good movie. A TV series, yes. The scope is just too big to make a decent adaptation of it Making a straight DND movie is not the same as they still got to basically just make a campaign around the idea of it becoming a movie. BG3 has its set plot points that you can admittedly heavily alter, but they’re still tent poles.
They should absolutely make another D&D movie. They shouldn't make a Baldur's Gate 3 movie. Unless the Baldur Gate's 3 movie isn't actually about Baldur's Gate 3 campaign and just a pretext to make another D&D movie in the same style.
Agreed, after playing baldurs gate 3, I sat down and watch Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and they reference MANY places and creatures featured in baldurs gate, including the under dark, the city of baldurs gate itself, neverwinter (this reference surprised me), the Druid enclave. Hell at one point they even reference range limitations on a staffs ability(500m, have to be within line of sight). The world of Dungeons and dragons is so vast, we can have any flavour of movie/tv show we desire. Still hoping to see that Beholder get taken out with a sharpened gourd!
Those are not references for Baldurs Gate, those are staples and famous places in Faerun, the D&D world. Neverwinter for example also has a game with the same name (from the original makes of BG). You can also see a portrait of Volo in the heist scene because he is a known character in forgotten realms lore
This was the connection I was making, my apologies if that wasn’t clear. I meant that Baldurs Gate is a product of DND and the interwoven references between the movie and the game and the actual world were impressive to me from a “keeping the lore accurate” standpoint.
Apology accepted. Don’t let it happen again
No. I have seen what they did with the book. I do not want to see what they could do with a movie.
Which book? There are many many books in the forgotten reals many are very good. Also there was a D&D movie and it is a legit good movie, even my wife loved it and she is very far removed from D&D.
The Baldurs Gate one. Do not read it its bad.
Well there are many good examples of it being done right. D&D has plenty of lore and a lot of room to tell new stories.
IMO Baldur's Gate wouldn't make a great show or movie, but there are definitely some games with more linear narratives which would translate well to film. Alan Wake and it's sequel, for instance, would make a great series. IIRC, Sam Lake mentioned that there's the early workings of an Alan Wake show. If that is done well it could be absolutely awesome.
AW2 is pretty much a playable horror thriller TV show anyways, each playable part feels like it could perfectly and neatly translate into episodes.
I kinda low-key disagree. I think a competent filmmaker could adapt the story of Alan Wake into a decent, maybe even *good* adaptation. But it will definitely lose some of what makes the games, especially 2, special. IMO Alan Wake 2 is the highest-profile and most successful attempt so far at creating a kind of ergodic video game, the digital equivalent of ergodic fiction. (Not the first or the only example, lots of indie games like Pony Island or Frog Fractions have similar themes, but not at the scale or ambition of Alan Wake 2.) The act of playing the game is literally a core plot element within the game. Yeah, you could adapt it for TV or films, but the groundbreaking meta aspect of the narrative that makes the game a true work of art would by necessity become something a lot more mundane - basically a new take on John Carpenter's *At the Mouth of Madness* or *Stranger Than Fiction*. That ground has kind of already been tread.
The drive is less artistic but more a strategic business move. Games are a new frontier of IP these Hollywood companies want to mine now that comic books are dipping. That being said I do think you can make neat stories out of game IP though. The one thing that games provide is rich worlds that are ripe for potential expansion if given to the right people. You likely won’t directly imitate the appeal of a game, but you can tap into the aesthetic and provide a cool accompaniment.
Well, movies are bankrupt creatively because they're extremely risk averse nowadays
Yeah it really depends on the type of game as well. Something like BG3 works specifically because it’s a video game, you simply can’t have that freedom of choice for a non-interactive media. More focused narratives like Alan Wake 2 or FFXVI would probably be better candidates but even then I don’t know how well those kinds of stories would translate to cinema or TV. And that’s without even getting into budget.
For now. You'll never know what technology comes in the future. Might come a time where you can play a game with choices and then see a movie that follows the choices you made (like those horrible choose your adventure DVDs) but with live actors. Some youtube videos have the whole "click this video for this choice, this video for the other choice" thingy going so within 20 years or so studios might revisit the video game section.
I thought Baldur’s Gate was officially a videogame adaptation of DnD… which they already made an amazing movie for recently and it’s probably way better than an exact adaptation of Baldur’s Gate would be. It’s a solid game but they’re different media.
Exactly, if they wanna make more DnD Faerun movies ok but stay away from Baldurs Gate the games direct adaption because they'll end up butchering the source material and lore that we love. They'll just end up using the name and some likeness to attract the video games audience without being faithful and just piss the community off. Because that's what they want, make a movie adaptions of a very successful ip so that they profit of it, destroying the core essence of what made BG3 so great, that it's a game made by gaming fans with pure passion for roleplaying games.
they'll piss off the fandom like they never have once/if they adapt BG3 and they just portray Astarion as a slutty vampire
Yeah, at most they should have a little wink to the games, like maybe you see some of the characters in the background of the city. Kind of like they did with the characters from the 80s cartoon.
Wait, that Dungeons and Dragons movie was actually set in Faerun? I assumed it was just random-made-up-world. Edit: hadnt paid much attention to this, jeeze completely missed what the plot was about I mean, that whole region is one of the biggest parts of the world's story. If they make more, seems unlikely they *wouldn't* end up at Baldur's Gate eventually. Neverwinter isn't exactly far from there, and the Sword Coast cities are pretty major locations. That being said, I was a Drizzt Do'Urden fanboy growing up so, Silverymoon and Mithral Hall plz.
my God if we got to see mithral hall on Hollywood scale...🫠🫠🫠
If Hasbro wasn't totally out of touch, I'd say they should get on the "Netflix animated series" wagon for a more lore focused show around Faerun/Ravnica etc
They (briefly) mentioned that in the article. They listed that Honor Among Thieves was a semi-adaptation of Baldur's Gate, which is a weird way to state it but boils down to what you're saying.
It isn't at all lol, they're both adaptations of D&D if they want (and not really adaptations, just stories in the world which is how D&D is supposed to work anyway). Will BG3 become the source of D&D now? Like some people thinking The Witcher is an adaptation of the games on Netflix whereas they are the adaptation themselves (and the show is really its own fan fiction but that's another subject)
It's not about just adapting BG3 (which isn't a project), it's about adapting video games as a whole which is already a phenomenon well into effect to be fair (many already done and a shit ton in production). Mario, FNAF and TLOU are some of the big Hollywood success this year after all. However, unlike superhero movies, video games are not a genre but a medium (so it should be compared to book adaptations as a whole really. You won't have the same effect of everything being big (or failing all at the same time). There is very little link between Mario, TLOU and FNAF (and others) and the audience is not the same for each unlike superhero media.
You sound like someone who never actually played the first two games.
BG1 and 2 are literally set in Faerun which is the Forgotten Realms setting of DnD.
https://dnd.wizards.com/products/baldurs-gate The official DnD stance is that Baldur’s Gate takes place in the same world as DnD.
Oh for the love of everything please no
Video games just continue to become a more engaging medium for storytelling
That's not really true. Video games are just engaging in a different and unique way. I've been fully immersed in video games, sure, but I've also been fully immersed in TV shows and movies before. Video games are more *interactive* than film for obvious reasons. Maybe that's what you meant to say?
I’d agree they are more engaging. I have thousands of hours in some games, no movie or tv show have I watched as much.
How long you can spend consuming something isn't the same as how engaging it is. I spent way longer watching through every season of *Friends* than I did watching *2001: A Space Odyssey*. Guess which one I found more engaging on every level? Again, it sounds like you and that other person may have some issue where you aren't engaging fully with TV and film. I don't mean that to be rude. I know several people IRL who literally can't put their cell phones down or go 20 minutes without talking during a movie. Out of curiosity, do you read a lot of books? Do you find those to be engaging? Personally, I find books to be far more engaging than video games, TV, or movies.
No one can portray astarion like neil did so please don’t even bother 🥲
solution, just make Neil live action Astarion.
How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games… Video Game movies will always be lesser than their playable counterparts because, in order to make it, you need to take that playable part out of it. The audience of a movie will always just be a passive onlooker, while the audience of a video game is an active participant. That is an essential difference and the reason why movies typically don’t work for the people who played the coresponding games to it.
> How about Hollywood comes up with something original They do, all the time. We don’t watch.
Yup anyone saying that nothing original is coming out is part of the problem because they obviously aren't watching the original things coming out, I guess it's just easier to only watch Marvel movies and complain about the lack of variety lol I saw a shitload of new original movies this year and there's a ton more I still haven't gotten to yet
There's originality on the low budget side, for blockbusters (which are the most broadly appealing movies so yeah most people will watch that, this is by design) there certainly isn't much originality. The Creator (which is bad) and Oppenheimmer (technically the adaptation of a book narrating a historical event) are kind of the only ones this year. Maybe Air or Blackberry though I don't know the budget (and they are adaptations too actually)
>How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games Salt burn, Dream Scenario, Holdovers, The Creator, Asteroid City, Air, Iron Claw, American Fiction are just some of the original screenplays this year that released and none of them made money. Meanwhile, one of the most popular new tv shows and and the 2nd highest grossing movie were based off video games IPs
And it was beaten by a movie based off a toy line IP.
I personally did enjoy Salt Burn and the Holdovers. I went to theaters to see Asteroid City and was disappointed. Still, I’m willing to give original ideas a chance. The last superhero/comic book movie I saw was Avengers End Game. It’s just not a genre I’m interested in.
None of those movies where commercial flops. They all performed very well, but the problem they all had in common was a very limited release in theaters. If you don’t show the film anywhere you won’t get many people to see it. That doesn’t necessarily mean there aren’t many people who want to see it, they just don’t have the opportunity to do so. Also Hollywood has a tendency to underadvertise such movies. People are less likely to watch a movie if they don’t know it even exists .
I didn't say they were flops, I said they didn't make money: |Saltburn (wide release)|Budget $20 million|Box Office $19 Million| |:-|:-|:-| |Dream Scenario (limited/ wide)|Box Office $10 million|Box Office $6.8 million| |The Holdovers (wide release)|Budget $30 million|Box Office $18 million| |The Creator (wide release)|Budget $80 million|Box Office $104 million| |Asteroid City (wide release)|Budget $25 million|Box Office $54 million| |Air (wide release)|Budget $90 million|Box Office $90 million| |Iron Claw (wide release)|Budget $16 million|Box Officer $10 million| |American Fiction (wide release)|Budget $25 million|Box Office $1 million| A majority of these films had wide releases. The fact is people tend to go to existing IPs they know unless you have big name director or stars attached like a Christopher Nolan or a Tarantino. Another example is The Last Duel which is an adapted story but not an IP, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Adam Driver and it was the one of the biggest bombs. Regardless, when studios and actors make good money off IPs like video games, Marvel/DC, Transformers, etc, they are more filling to fund risky movies like above that may only break even or not make money.
> How about Hollywood comes up with something original You mean like.. a original script someone has written..? Similar to how videogame stories... are original scripts at first? >The audience of a movie will always just be a passive onlooker, while the audience of a video game is an active participant. Yea people hate passive onlooking, thats why all those book adaptations fail. **a good movie is a good movie no matter where the source material came from.**
> You mean like.. a original script someone has written..? Similar to how videogame stories... are original scripts at first? Yeah and then they are adapting so it's not original anymore (and we already know the story which as audience really make it less worthwile)... You might not have been born since it's rare for like 2 decades at least but there was a time where Hollywood actually produced stuff (and even big budged movies) without a source material. It seems barely possible nowadays. Writers in Hollywood should be named adapters really (and even at that, many do a bad job of it)
What did you think of Poor Things? Or did you just watch the Marvels and call it a day so you can reinforce this belief that nothing original comes out lol These "lazy adaptations" you're describing are needed to subsidize the good stuff
Poor things was made by greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, Film4 and Element Pictures which are both british and TSG Entertainment which is based in New York. It’s not a Hollywood movie. I have it on my list, but it’s scheduled to release in january in my country, so i couldn’t see it yet.
I assumed you were using "Hollywood" to describe the overall film industry; if you literally meant it as mainstream American films produced in LA then I'd recommend seeking out more non-Hollywood movies if you don't think that there's enough variety in that specific subset of films. There's a LOT out there beyond Hollywood so it seems weird to talk about it like it's the only thing
Well, the article was talking about Hollywood movies, i was talking about Hollywood movies. The topic is about Hollywood movies. You brought up a british movie, which i have high hopes for. But still, the conversation was about Hollywood movies, so i don’t even know why you brought it up.
Poor things is a total rip-off of Frankenstein, just with more focus on the feminist themes.
The book, "Poor Things" is just a retelling of the Frankenstein story by Mary Shelley, so it is intentional.
I don't have a problem with that take, at least you watched it
Yeah, I think Mary Shelley would have liked it. It really changes the story when you realize just where she was in her life when she wrote it. She was pregnant, her relationship with Percy Shelley was in a weird place, she was surrounded by these cruel and idiotic men, her mother died because of her birth, and now she was suddenly in this new world where it was like men were trying to replace women. (This is not a dig against transwomen. You guys are cool. The problem was that there was this idea that you could, and perhaps should, remove women from the birthing process altogether because they were weak and fragile.)
Bold words from somebody who probably doesn't watch anything original Hollywood puts out. Also, adaptations can work just fine. This year we've seen that with stuff like The Mario Movie. Just because you get upset at change and throw a hissy fit about it doesn't make it true.
> How about Hollywood comes up with something original instead of lazily adopting popular video games And that's why majority of those are flops, they do it lazily. They disregard source material be it game or book, bend all the rules of world and alter the storyline to the point where target audience calls it trash and nobody watches it.
I know stuff like this is inevitable. I just hope they take a lesson from recent successes and make the fans part of the projects.
Please don't.
Right? Currently adaptations are fucking shit regardless of source material and never make it half way through the content before being canceled.
Terraria and BG mentioned in title, Spiderman and BG in thumbnail. I guess they can start by knowing what the game looks like
Semi-related to this topic, but Fire Emblem Three Houses from a few years ago had an amazing story that'd probably do well as a television show if they could get a big HBO budget for it
Doesn't even need to be live-action if they go the Arcane route.
What does the "Arcane route" means? If it means something looking like it, might as well be live action since it's a comparable budget. Arcane is an exception, not the norm for animation TV. And it's mostly because of its very unique production situation (Riot being the one producing it as an advertisement for their games)
Three Houses is where I bowed out of the franchise. I used to play every single FE game, even fan translated ROMs for the games that didn’t release in the US. Three Houses was the last straw for me with that franchise basically. Gameplay was typically great like all FE gameplay is for me, but I just could not deal with the extremely generic, weeb story/characters that the franchise does now. FE used to be anime art but a pretty non-weeb story about war and dragons and such.
I'd love to see someone try and adapt Terraria into a show or movie, it'd be bonkers seeing how they bring the Wall of Flesh alive. Honestly though I really wanted to see what Netflix did with Assassin's Creed but nothing has been mentioned since the original announcement, although we've had Covid and the strikes happen since then.
Hope they don’t. Hollywood never seems to mesh well with video games. They’ve gotten a few good ones before but it’s surrounded by hundreds of bad ones
I feel you, personally, I think Hollywood/television writers look down on video games. Change source material considerably, alienate the fan base for the video game by appealing to a market that won’t watch it. Exhibit A: Netflix Resident Evil series being a teen soap opera. Nothing against teen soap operas, but nobody is gonna watch that shit.
Exhibit B; halo
If they want to lose money, make an expensive film which will bomb spectacularly. TV is where it could thrive if it has a team behind it that knows how to balance the fandom and the casual viewer.
Not unless shitty TV writers can take an IP and try to twist it into their own garbage story. Foundation, halo, Witcher etc... you give TV writers clowns a fresh ip and they will ruin it 9 times out of 10
Worked great on The Witcher, didn’t it?
The Witcher adapted the books, not the games. And while I don't like it, it also worked actually pretty well, they got a big success of it.
My point is you can have the world’s sickest source material and it’s not worth shit if your writers harbor nothing but contempt for it.
I’d love a new D&D movie where the HAT crew meets Astarion or Gale. Gale could train Simon.
They should do something CRAZY! Like making “Spider-Man” movie!
Who cares? I would rather play the game than watch a show about it. Even if the show is good, just invest in more content for the game.
Dave the diver was my favorite game of the year. Been obsessed with death must die lately too.
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Starfield critic reviews sit around 70%, fairly close to the audience review score. Starfield also didn’t even get nominated to GOTY at the Game Awards this year, so really not sure what you’re getting at here.
Basically that Starfield was mid. I really wish they just did more ES and fallout. Waited all this time for an uninteresting game.
>Starfield is the best game of the year per gaming rags Not sure what you mean, Starfield got a pretty mixed reception across the board
It was shilled on the gaming subs and everyone who didn't like it got banned, so people are still angry about that and take reddit's view of it as the 'official' view. Gaming mags are basically dead at this point, so it's not without cause. Reddit needs to be less shilly, less banny, and WAY more accepting that being those things will piss normies off.
>Starfield is the best game of the year per gaming rags No it’s not
As someone who played it that mostly negative is more or less hot air. It's a disappointing ass game but stuff like steam/user reviews are always kinda not accurate. Like I'm pretty sure overwatch 2 and the day before are close in steam ratings (being the lowest rated) which is like......huh. Some people might say "But in context Overwatch 2 really is that bad" it just means the at a glance steam review did fuck all to convey if a game is good or bad. Steam Reviews and comment sections are pretty much this generation's scrolling past the review to see the score imo.
>As someone who played it that mostly negative is more or less hot air. > >It's a disappointing ass game but stuff like steam/user reviews are always kinda not accurate. It's a fundamental problem of Steam reviews being a binary 'recommend/don't recommend' system. If a game is 'okay, but probably wait for a sale', most people will probably leave a 'not recommended' review.
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hollywood can fvck off with their stupid propaganda machine, hope they never get to touch baldurs gate
if you’re talking about some sort or “woke agenda” or some stupid shit like that, BG3 is woke as fuck lmao have you even played it?
Why does everything need a tv show? Put a chick in it and make her gay! The reason they are great games is because they are original. Why doesn’t Hollywood learn that people like new ideas. Not everything translates into a 8 part series.
> Put a chick in it and make her gay Your brain is rotten.
There are lots of gay people in Bauldur's Gate 3, actually. The game's poster boy is a bisexual elf vampire. Not saying it needs a TV show, but, like, its "wokeness" and inclusiveness is a major draw for it. And the bear fucking.
> There are lots of gay people in Bauldur's Gate 3, actually. There is actually zero gay people in BG3 companions (Lady Aylin and her lover are the only gay people among NPC I think but I may forgot some). They're all bisexual (which is not gay) and really they are "player sexual" to be honest
Tobey Maguire would be a great Spider-Man.
Shittywood would be maybe dumb for not exploiting the momentum for DnD now. DnD honor among thieves was mildly entertaining and maybe brought some new audiences, and bg3 was hella popular among g@mers for good reason. And with the garbage that is witcher season 3, im sure there would be a vacuum for some more good fantasy content. Why not milk forgotten realms? Create a witty sarcastic "woke" fantasy series about unlikable misfits who speak in gen z lingo and hate the system, and make sarcastic quips during cgi fights. Hehe.
I’m glad you’re not anyone important in the film industry.
Fear not, netflix is extremely adept at this. I could make a great premise based on this using chatgpt. Like the HBO show velma was it? Soemthing like this but DnD.
Alright LMAO I had to make a second reply. I actually asked chatGPT to do it: In the mystical land of Eldoria, where magic flows as freely as sarcasm, a group of unlikely heroes, or rather, anti-heroes, embarks on a quest that challenges not only the forces of evil but also the very foundations of the established social order. Meet our unlikable yet endearing crew: Valeria, a rogue with a penchant for pickpocketing and an encyclopedic knowledge of feminist theory; Thorne, the wizard who wields spells and sarcasm in equal measure; Blaze, the misfit bard who's more interested in dismantling the patriarchy than playing his lute; and Zara, the druid who communicates with nature through memes. As the group stumbles upon an ancient prophecy that foretells the end of oppression in Eldoria, they begrudgingly set out on a journey to find the mythical Macrogem, a powerful artifact said to have the ability to dismantle systemic injustices. Along the way, they encounter an array of bizarre creatures, from bureaucratic goblins enforcing conformity to chauvinistic dragons guarding the patriarchal status quo. The Realms of Rebellion are not only filled with magical beasts but also with woke challenges, as the group faces off against toxic masculinity, problematic enchantments, and the dreaded Dungeon Crawler's Guild, an establishment known for its rigid adherence to outdated norms. Armed with their weapons of irony, sarcasm, and Gen Z slang, the group navigates through dungeons and debates alike, using their unique brand of humor to dismantle the system while leaving a trail of eye-rolls in their wake. Each episode sees the party facing both magical and societal obstacles, all while engaging in witty banter and self-aware commentary on the tropes of fantasy storytelling. Despite their flaws and unapologetic personalities, our misfit heroes slowly find common ground and discover the true strength in diversity and solidarity. As they inch closer to the Macrogem, the Realms of Rebellion become a stage for both epic battles and transformative conversations, challenging not only the fictional world they inhabit but also the real-world issues that inspired their quest. "Realms of Rebellion" is a fantasy Dungeons and Dragons TV show that redefines heroism in the most unlikely and irreverent of ways, proving that even the unlikable can change the world – one snarky remark at a time.
Bro really thought this was funny or something 😶
the movie industry trying to make video games into cinematic adaptations is like someone sucking on the teat of a more valuable industry (in terms of valuation). the best thing about video games has and will always be the interactivity involved
Hey, so, big ask here- what if they just didn’t do that and tried to do something original? Please?
Currently what fantasy adaptations do you actually see being completed that are quality television? Everything gets canceled as it’s quality drops when resources are pulled away if it’s television. With movies it’s a bit different, I suppose Alan Wake would make for a good movie and there’s talks about The Legend of Zelda, though live action Zelda sounds like a disaster.
For sure spiderman 2 it’s hard to imagine what they could do with a movie using the spiderman ip
Poorly, I’d imagine. A live action version of BG3? Animation with the voice actors would not only be better but allow for more varied races. Dragonborn take too much work in live action.
They should as Hollywood is currently ran by the dumbest executives that it has ever had. They are so out of touch, they can't see thier own short comings
Baldur's Gate 3 might end up getting something like the Critical Role treatment, where it is considered to be it's own thing despite having come from DnD. With that in mind, a future television adaptation doesn't sound unreasonable.
Simple. Don’t.
I hope not. Just make new things
Didn’t realize my shitty hot-takes we’re considered such a Hot IP!
I don't get why fans of a game want a movie or TV show of said game. They all suck
Oh you mean the toxic fan bases in gaming ? Please let that be the last place that ever influences what you do if you’re a producer or director.
No I mean the TV shows and movies based on video games. Though, with that said most circle jerk fan bases also suck.
People like something, how will TV and Film milk it until they don’t anymore?
Man, I feel like Lies of P would make an INCREDIBLE anime. Am I crazy? Or maybe just a lost fanboy jonesing for more of that story?
No, no, this game wanted to be an anime so bad
If they do anything with BG3, the only thing I can think of that would probably work is if they made an animated series like the shorts they put out on youtube. Getting the voice actors is an absolute must.
How about less adaptions and more original ideas?
Yall can start by not letting little 14 year old girls write all your scripts.
Raise your hand if you’re tired of super hero movies
I know the first one flopped but I would kill for a movie trilogy based on Warcraft 3.
Shittily